REAL TIME CLASS NOTES
Dr Jack's Loft  ©2004

        Chapter 2 - CULTURE 
I. Definition of "Culture"

A. The Learned Aspect of Behaviour

B. Society:
  1.size varies

  2.roles

  3.rules

  4. shared goals

C. Culture
  1. same as above
  2. Trans-historical

D. language makes it all possible

  1. argots

E. Cultural Change

  1. innovation

  2. discovery

  3. invention

  4. all cultures change

F. globalization of culture

  1. "McDonaldization"  (Ritzer)

  

II. Elelments of Culture
A. 1. language (*see p. 38)

     2. norms

     3.  mores

     4. folkways

     5. sanctions

     6. values (judgments on behaviour) (see p. 42)

     7. Robert K. Merton

 

III.  Variations
A.all cultures vary

 

B. subculture

 

C. counterculture

 

D. cultural shock

 

E. ETHNOCENTRISM
  1. all groups develop it
  2. definition

  3. Eurocentrism

  4. paradox of self-defeatism

 

IV. Socialization
A. What is the "self"? (the question is how we come to know who we are)
(nature vs nurture)

  1. isolation impedes social growth

B. Charles Horton Cooley 
  1. The Looking Glass Self
 

  2. should diminish with time

C. Sigmund Freud
  1. "instincts"

D.  George Herbert Mead

  1. The Self as Object

      1. hypothesis
      2. dependent variable
      3. independent variable
      4. problem with human subjects

D. What do you do with your "self"?
  
  1. Erving Goffman (everyone has a story)


  2. Impression management (Dramaturgy)

 

 


V. Living the Social Experience

A. Rites of Passage

  1. associated with age

  2. specific behaviours

B. Anticipatory socialization

  1. what school is all about

  2. resocialization

    a. work

    b. military

C. agents of socialization

  1. the family

  2. peers

  3. work group

  4.  media

  5. federal

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